Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Samar Sheth

Cardiovascular Disease Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1013146901 CMS profile 182070

6624 Fannin St, Suite 2320, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$25,588

760 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$224

Paid to them · 2 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$223,103 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2020–2025

Through program year 2025, Samar Sheth of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $25,588 across 760 general payments and $224 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $223,103 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 90th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

9 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,595 101
2024 General $2,797 86
2023 General $2,735 106
2023 Research $166 1
2022 General $4,244 124
2022 Research $58 1
2021 General $3,904 92
2020 General $2,754 88
2019 General $6,559 163

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Samar Sheth
  • Cardiovascular Disease median
  • Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Samar Sheth were reported at $2,595. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year Samar Sheth Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $6,559 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $2,754 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $3,904 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $4,244 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $2,735 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $2,797 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $2,595 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abiomed $4,054 46 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $3,762 90 payments
  3. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $2,000 36 payments
  4. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $1,690 21 payments
  5. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,365 20 payments
  6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $961 39 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $907 57 payments
  8. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $905 58 payments
  9. Medtronic, Inc. $843 15 payments
  10. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $790 24 payments
  11. Other $8,311 354 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $23,631 749 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,924 8 payments
  3. Education $32 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Impella $3,936 42 payments
  2. LifeVest $2,000 36 payments
  3. CoreValve Evolut $1,469 9 payments
  4. Mitra Clip system $1,286 14 payments
  5. XARELTO $905 58 payments
  6. Repatha $744 43 payments
  7. VERQUVO $713 33 payments
  8. FARXIGA $585 17 payments
  9. Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System $584 2 payments
  10. ELIQUIS $462 26 payments
  11. Other $14,818 557 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abiomed $224 2 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 59 drugs

Part D claims

3,844

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 2,236

Drug cost

$913,665

Median for Interventional Cardiology: $380,412

Branded share of claims

26.8%

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 27.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 229 $268,313
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 91 $129,544
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 83 $113,017
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 82 $87,668
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 95 $86,155
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 54 $56,641
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 47 $56,556
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 24 $28,547
Nexlizet Bempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe Brand 16 $16,628
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 14 $10,151

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 59 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 4,694 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 70 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$607,633

Of which drugs: $1,113

Medicare patients

812

Average age 76

Services billed

5,113

379 women, 433 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 69%
Heart failure 53%
Atrial fibrillation 50%
Chronic kidney disease 50%
Arthritis 47%
Diabetes 43%
COPD 26%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 Office 72 288 $1,113

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 19 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
VERQUVO
$214 — —
Arcalyst
$102 — —
Ozempic
$85 47 —
JARDIANCE
$83 95 —
VYNDAQEL
$78 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

762 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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